Much Ado About Nothing - West End Creative Team
Production Staff
William Shakespeare
Playwright
Fabian Aloise
Choreographer
London based Theatre Choreographer and Movement Director. Credits include Matilda the Musical, Legally Blonde, and more.
Hayley Atwell
Beatrice
A prolific actress across stage, TV and film, Atwell's most recent theatre work includes Measure for Measure at the Donmar, Dry Powder at Hampstead Theatre and The Pride at Trafalgar Studios. She won great acclaim for her performances in the BBC adaptations of Howards End and The Long Song last year. Widely known as Peggy Carter in the Marvel Cinematic Universe and subsequent TV series Agent Carter, she also starred in The Duchess, Kenneth Branagh's Cinderella and most recently Christopher Robin. Her latest film Blinded by the Light, directed by Gurinder Chadha and based on the book by Sarfraz Manzoor ... read more
Marc Brenner
Photo Credit
Jon Clark
Lighting Designer
Jon is an Olivier Award winning and double Tony Award nominated lighting designer, based in the UK.
Theatre includes
NATIONAL THEATRE: The Lehman Trilogy (also Park Avenue Armory, New York and Piccadilly Theatre, West End), Manor, I’m Not Running, Absolute Hell, Amadeus, As You Like It, The Beaux Stratagem, Hamlet, Othello, The Effect, Collaborators, A Woman Killed With Kindness, Greenland, Pains of Youth, Our Class, Damned by Despair, Women of Troy, The Cat in the Hat, Beauty and the Beast, Hansel and Gretel.
ROYAL SHAKESPEARE COMPANY (RSC): Hamlet, The Tempest, The Comedy of Errors, Twelfth Night, The Merchant of Venice, The Winter’s Tale, ... read more
Soutra Gilmour
Designer
Soutra Gilmour is a British set and costume designer who has made a name for herself in the world of theater and opera. Born in Edinburgh, Scotland, Gilmour grew up with a love of the arts and went on to study at the Glasgow School of Art and the Royal College of Art in London.
Gilmour's career in theater began in the early 2000s, and she quickly made a name for herself with her innovative and visually stunning designs. She has worked on productions all over the world, from London's West End to Broadway and beyond.
One of Gilmour's most notable works ... read more
Tom Hiddleston
Benedick
Tom Hiddleston will play Benedick in Much Ado About Nothing on Broadway in fall 2026. For The Jamie Lloyd Company: Much Ado About Nothing (Theatre Royal Drury Lane - Olivier Award nominee for Best Actor, WhatsOnStage Award nominee for Best Performer in a Play, The Standard Theatre Award nominee for Best Actor), Betrayal (Harold Pinter Theatre/Broadway/Bernard B. Jacobs Theatre - Tony Award nominee for Best Performance by a Leading Actor in a Play, Evening Standard Theatre Award nominee for Best Actor).
Other theatre credits include: Hamlet (Kenneth Branagh Theatre Company), Coriolanus (Donmar Warehouse - Evening Standard Theatre Award for Best ... read more
Mara Huf
Hero
Mika Onyx Johnson
Borachio
Gerald Kyd
Don Pedro
Gerald Kyd began his career on stage after being spotted by an agent immediately following graduation, spending seven months performing with the Royal Shakespeare Company. He gained wider recognition starring as Sean Maddox on the BBC medical drama Casualty from 1998 to 2000, returning to the role in 2006. His television credits also include Persons Unknown, The Bible, Sherlock, Silent Witness, Unforgotten, Doctor Who, The Split, Malory Towers, The Assassin, the Netflix miniseries Hostage, and Netflix's crime drama Legends. His film work includes Lara Croft: Tomb Raider – The Cradle of Life and The Principles of Lust. On stage, Kyd ... read more
Jamie Lloyd
Director
Jamie Lloyd is a British theatre director who studied at the Liverpool Institute for Performing Arts. He made his first main house directing debut with Harold Pinter's The Caretaker at Sheffield Theatres before directing Pinter's The Lover and The Collection in the West End (2008). He served as Associate Director of the Donmar Warehouse from 2008 to 2011, where he directed Piaf (2008), which transferred to the West End and Buenos Aires, and Passion (2010), which won the Evening Standard Theatre Award for Best Musical. As an Associate Artist with Headlong, he directed Salome, and he also directed The Pride ... read more
Forbes Masson
Leonato
Phillip Olagoke
Friar Francis
Mason Alexander Park
Musician
Mason Alexander Park(she/they) is a performer/writer starring as Mary Todd Lincoln in the West End transfer of Oh, Mary! They also recently starred in back-to-back Jamie Lloyd productions in the West End, The Tempest as Ariel (opposite Sigourney Weaver) and Much Ado About Nothing as Margaret (alongside Tom Hiddleston and Hayley Atwell.) They also played The Emcee in the current West End revival of Cabaret. Mason can be seen on screen as Dr. Ian Wright in NBC's Quantum Leap sequel series, Gren in the Netflix live action adaptation of Cowboy Bebop, Desire in The Sandman, and in Amazon's Critical Role: ... read more
James Phoon
Claudio
Tim Steed
Don John

